I. The industrial age and civilization (mid-19th century to 1939) 2. Europe and the World → Europe dominate the world —Europe already controls the world (colonization since the 15th century, …
→ In the aftermath of the Cold War —failure of the putsch in 1991, disappearance of the USSR, creation of the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) by Russia, Ukraine, and …
→ The double mandate of Jacques Chirac, elected president in 1995 and 2002 Jacques Chirac Jacques Chirac’s terms in office: —may 7, 1995 election of Jacques Chirac against Lionel Jospin, …
We will insist on the correction of the First subject, which was more original in its formulation, and then examine the second subject, which deals with the classic problem of …
→ The European Union is growing stronger —Maastricht Treaty in 1992 —the European Monetary Institute in 1994, Madrid Summit in 1995 which chose the name of the euro, Euro put …
→ The people’s democracies around the USSR —the USSR sets up communist regimes in the Central European states (Romania in 1945, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland in 1947, Czechoslovakia in 1948 …
